The essay Transcendence in Mayan Mythology
demonstrated valuable esoteric wisdom in the Maya concept of the cosmogenesis
of First Father in 2012. The follow up essay Source
of the Cosmogenesis Story presented a cursory introduction to the source
of all the greatest myths, Mayan or otherwise. The essay ended with the comment,
"When the ancestors first saw the enlightenment, is not yet known, for
it is still lost in the cycles of the heavens. The result of the enlightenment
has been found again. The enlightenment was the Word, as originally expressed
by whatever Force has the capacity to place the stars on their individual
journeys. That Force is incredibly greater than any force knowable to humans.
The cosmogenesis of 2012 will be a realization that the Word was that force,
and those that can comprehend the Word, will be given the power to become
sons of God." I have repeated these words to emphasize the point that
the Maya myths were not esoteric fantasies, they had the very high goal of
turning Maya children into gods. This is the goal of all religions. This
is the meaning of the 5th Sun.

We must not blind ourselves to the fact that rational science, when applied
to the metaphysics of religion, is incompetent. This incompetence comes from
the tyrannical hypothesis implied by the scientific method as we apply it
today. Our version of the scientific method excludes subjectivity. More important
to the science initiate, is the mandatory edict that any scientific expression
be presented with all subjectivity removed and replaced by total objectivity.
That tyranny is an action of the trickster known as Seven Macaw to the Maya.
If the Maya myths are expressing the Word of First father, then it has to
be subjective. The subject is the whole essence of the myth. Science must
exclude the complete story in order to be objective. That exclusion makes
the modern scientific method incompetent to comprehend the subject of the
cosmos as understood through any ancient myth which is a subjective vision
of the cosmos.

The present essay will demonstrate that objectivity and subjectivity have
special roles to play in any process of understanding. The object is, in
effect, the original intent of the Force which caused the object to be an
object. The subject is the message within the object which reveals an original
intent for the object. In order for communication to occur, the subject must
identify through the object, the original intent of the Force which caused
the object to be an object. Consciousness of a cosmic intent requires an
object medium and a subject message through and from which cosmic truth
transcends. This "law" of communication applies at all microscopic and
macroscopic levels.

We cannot expect to take an initiate from total ineptness to direct rational
understanding of the initiating Cosmic Force. Ritual and rote learning are
primarily subliminal communication techniques. We can, however, imply to
the initiate that there is a plan, and the initiate can find that plan within
the ritual. A primary difficulty in all endeavors of this nature is that
initiates do not want to know the plan, they want "salvation" results. The
originator of the plan is the one called First Father. The messenger who
carries the plan as a cosmic object is the one called First Mother. The idea
that First Mother expresses First Father at the cosmogenesis of 2012 implies
"how?" and "why?" essences. First is the clear statement that the emotion
of the object expresses the meaning of the message carried. By proper
association, the message can be deciphered from the First Mother's expression.
In the investigation of Mother Nature, science has found an enormous number
of "how?" messages in its pursuits. These messages have become the Sacred
Cow dogma of science, stripped of the subjective "why?" purpose. Science
does not concern itself with the "why?" question. Ancient sacred science
studied the "how?" and the "why?" questions simultaneously, as the means
to an intent, or the "will of God."

Science as we experience it comes to us through human endeavors. The human
who pursues a scientifically verifiable truth begins with the objectivity
of personal desire which is expressed as an hypothesis. It is at this initial
stage that much of modern science begins to become spiritually incompetent.
When it comes to archaeology and anthropology, the initiating objectivity
of the scientist blinds the search for truth. In the stars of the Maya cosmos
is the demon to modern science called astrology. Modern science owes its
very existence to astrology which was a study of the stars on an objective
and subjective basis. Astrology declares that there is meaning in the stars.
Modern science has denied that meaning can exist in the stars. This denial
is the cause of the spiritual incompetence of science regarding metaphysics.
This barrier comes from a need to limit science to material substance. Science
is Mother Nature's compassion separated from Father Nature's intention.

To avoid stepping beyond the barrier at the edge of non-objective science,
let me suggest that we ask two simple questions regarding the Maya. Did they
see messages in the stars? If they saw messages in the stars, do the objects
which revealed the messages still carry the messages? In other words, can
the stars show the message without a Maya priest voicing an opinion of the
message. This is not a simple process, for a believer in the Maya message
is essentially expressing a reincarnated spirit of the Maya, and is therefore,
a Maya in spirit. So, lets start with a different approach. Lets look at
our modern Western Culture and see if we have the "secret" celestial messages
buried within our own material science. Then lets compare what we accomplished
with our messages to what the Maya accomplished with their messages to get
a better appreciation of the myth of the Maya. This is the old adage, "walk
a mile in my shoes," inversed to show we have gone the same way.

CALENDARS AS STAR CHARTS

Our modern calendar is called the Gregorian calendar. It is a modification
of the Julian calendar which was initiated by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. When
Caesar established his calendar, he added the customary 23 days after February
23, and an additional 67 days between November and December so that 46 BC
was 445 days in length, with the specific intent of aligning the new calendar
to the vernal equinox. That is a celestial message which cannot be ignored.
Why was it necessary to use the vernal equinox, why not the autumn equinox,
or one of the solstices? Two things entered the scientific expression of
a calendar. First, the calendar had to have a celestial basis, because it
was a means of counting days, which is a cycle to a star. Second, the periodicity
of 365.25 days of the Julian calendar needed a reference point to link the
New Year to a larger cycle of the same star. Caesar was emperor of Rome,
and most of the Western World, thus, as the ruler, he could make a choice
based upon his on desires. This choice added subjectivity to the calendar.
Two adversaries of modern science had been placed in the calendar, astral
logic and subjectivity.

For 3000 years prior to Julius Caesar, the Egyptians had used a civil calendar
and a Sothic calendar. The Sothic calendar was synchronized with the heliacal
rise of Sirius with the morning sun. Since Sirius has a period of 365.2500
days, this was a celestial based leap year calendar for the Egyptians. This
was the Egyptian celestial year to a star that was not the sun, but required
no intercalation every four years. The civil calendar was thirty six ten
day periods with one five day period to celebrate the birth of the children
of Nut and Geb, Mother Sky and Father Earth. Thus, Caesar accepted the Sothic
calendar period, and rejected the subjective calendar of Egypt, for his own
subjective rendition, and he joined the two calendars as one. A day and a
year were both tied to the sun, and Sol Invictus, the Invincible Sun, became
the law of the land, as cosmic time lost its relevance.

The children of Nut and Geb were Osiris, Horus the Elder, Seth, Isis, and
Nephthys. There is a direct correspondence in the number of children of Nut
and Geb to the Maya number of ages that needs to be understood. In Egyptian
mythology, Osiris, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys played dominant roles in the
ritual life of the Egyptians. Osiris is the archetype of human experience,
and he died at the hand of his brother Seth, who was the archetype of self
identity. This should not be a metaphysical surprise, and it should be clear
that the cause of the absence of ancestral wisdom is usurping self awareness.
Sol Invictus is personal star consciousness at the expense of cosmic
consciousness. Isis represented the nurturing mother in Egyptian spiritual
life, and she had been the throne wife of Osiris. This throne can be identified
with consciousness, where nurturing emotion sits as a provider of desirable
experience. It can also be identified with the path of the sun, and the ecliptic
wife, Virgo. Nephthys on the other hand was the "house" wife of Osiris. Her
work was to keep the material world in order. She is associated with Andromeda
in the "house of her lord." These four neters of Egypt were representing
the archetypes of the four metaphysical elements, fire, air, water, and earth,
which are metaphors related to the spiritual, rational, physical, and material
aspects of existence. There were also several constellations representing
these four neters, foremost among them were Orion, Lepus, Virgo, and Andromeda.
Horus the Elder was inactive in this generation, but his essence evolves
in the next generation through the 5th Son.

According to legend, after Osiris had been entombed by Seth, Isis found his
dead body and was made to be with child. This child, Horus, was the conforming
son of experience and emotion. He came to Egypt to fight for the return of
his father's kingdom which his usurping uncle had taken. The parallel between
Osiris, Horus, Seth, and One Hunahpu, Hunahpu, Seven Macaw are derived from
cosmic messages and human experiences. This essence of the cosmic message
is in the following questions. "Should the son of a king conform to the intent
of the originating king, or should the son of a king conform to the dictates
of rational usurpation?" Does the lack of perfect efficacy in celestial logic
mean that there are no rational messages in the stars? Does science deny
the subject of the cosmos, which is alive, in order to rationalize the object
of the cosmos, which is not alive?

WHY CALENDARS FAIL TO SYNCHRONIZE.

Pope Paul III recruited astronomers to solve a synchronization problem of
the Julian calendar, when it was discovered prior to 1582, that the vernal
equinox did not fall on March 25 any more. Upon his election, Pope Gregory
XIII had his bishops establish a
new
calendar on February 24, 1582, which was to assure that the months stayed
locked to the seasons. The current Gregorian calendar is a leap year calendar
in which every year divisible by four has an extra day at the end of February.
The Gregorian calendar does not have a leap year on century years if the
century is not divisible by four hundred. Every 3300 years the Gregorian
calendar will have to give back another excess leap day to keep the calendar
tuned to the seasons. One effect, and possible intent, of this modified Julian
tropical calendar is a loss of cosmic consciousness and Pagan rituals for
synchronization to the cosmic center. It is the Pagan rituals within the
Catholic ritual that still synchronize the cosmos to the Gregorian calendar.

There is another subjective change initiated by Pope Gregory XIII. He moved
New Year's Day to January 1, so that it would be closer to the winter solstice,
and at the beginning of a month. Also, the British colonies did not accept
the authority of the Pope, so they waited until 1752 before they forced the
British calendar to coincide with the Catholic calendar. This point was made
clear to me when reading a Royal Astronomer's description of an eclipse,
and finding an eleven day error in his work. After consulting the British
calendar system, I realized he was on a British calendar, not the Catholic
calendar. In my objective pursuit, I had failed to keep track of the subjectivity
which must inevitably be in any calendar system.

If we are to determine the scientific basis for any celestial observation,
we have to have an accurate count of the number of days back to the observation.
Using a month and day method can cause significant error, since the calendar
has subjective elements to it. Because of this subjectivity, astronomers
have adopted a Julian calendar of 365.25 days to a year. They also chose
the Greenwich meridian at 12:00 noon on January 1, 4713 BC as the zero reference.
The Julian zero date has been attributed to
Joseph
Scaliger (1540-1609) . He chose the Greenwich meridian at noon on January
1, 4713 B.C. as the Julian zero date. The "logic" behind the date was a choice
for the synchronous alignment of the repetitive characteristics of three
existing calendar systems, the 28 year Julian cycle, the 19 year Golden Number
lunar cycles, and a 15 year Roman tax cycle. It is clear that the Julian
calendar was not intended to be a celestial based accounting system like
the Maya long count calendar. We will use this secular Julian calendar for
dating sacred celestial events for the sake of conformity to readily available
astronomical planetarium programs.

And finally, there is another phenomenon which must be understood when counting
backward using any calendar based upon the Catholic calendar. The Catholic
calendar was derived from the Roman calendar. However, it set the first date
to the year 1 A.D. We can count back to 1 A.D., but the day before January
1, 1 AD is December 31, 1 BC. There are two years missing! What happened
to December 31, 0 A.D. and January 1, 0 B.C.? The answer is, the Roman system
did not have a zero, therefore, there never was a year 0 A.D. or 0 B.C. This
point is critical to understanding the science of the Maya Long Count. The
astronomer's calendar cuts the loss to one year on a numerical basis, by
starting with a 1 BC date for the first negative count day. Thus, when counting
backward through the years before 1 BC, remember to eliminate one year in
the number of the years.

Gospel myth says that all children born between January 1, 0 B.C. and December
31, 0 A.D. were eliminated from the book of life. Every child in Bethlehem
was sacrificed under two years of age when the new Romanized calendar was
established. This event was recorded in the action Herod was reported to
have taken on discovering of the existence of a new born king, as reported
in Matt 2:14-16. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother
by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod:
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Out of Egypt have I called my son. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked
of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children
that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old
and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the
wise men. So, the villainy of Herod carries a message about our modern
calendar. It also carries the Maya idea of the age of the 5th Sun, and a
new born king! The time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men
is a reference to the Magi synchronizing the calendar to a cosmic event
representing the arrival of the new heavenly king on earth.

Astronomical calculations are performed using the Julian leap year calendar
before 1700 AD. On March 1, 1700, the Julian calendar would have had a leap
year date of February 29, 1700. However, the astronomical community has agreed
to use the Gregorian calendar after October 15, 1582. This is a clean date
for calculation purposes, however, it generates confusion when the Julian
days are calculated across the period from March 1, 1700 to October 4, 1582.
The following calculations may help understand the variation in the astronomical
date for 0.0.0.0.0 on the Maya long count calendar and the typical Gregorian
date used by Mayanologists.

13 Baktun is an unambiguous value of 1,872,000 days. A Gregorian calendar
has a year which is calculated on the basis of four centuries, such that
the Gregorian period is 146,097 days for four hundred years. The Julian calendar
year is 365.25 days, or 146,100 days per four hundred years. If we divide
the 1,872,000 days for 13 Baktun by 146,097/400, we get 5125.3619 years.
The period from 2012 AD back 5125 years results in the year 3114 BC. As mentioned
earlier, the Gregorian BC dates start with 1 BC, so that an additional year
is added to get the actual Gregorian calendar year. The remainder of 0.3619
years is 132.18 days before December 21, which leads to August 11, 3114 BC
as the day for 0 Baktun in the Gregorian calculations.

Doing similar calculations for the astronomer's Julian calendar requires
that we split the 13 Baktun into pre and post 1700, and we have to account
for the ten days Gregory XIII took off the calendar. Thus, there are 312
years at the Gregorian length, or 113955.66 Gregorian days. The remaining
1758044.34 days represent 4813.26 Julian years. Combined we have 5125.2631
mixed years for the astronomical Julian calendar. The difference in the
astronomer's 13 Baktun period and the Gregorian 13 Baktun period is 0.0988
years. Using a 365.25 day year for simplicity, we have 36.087 fewer remainder
days in the astronomer's calendar than in the simplified Gregorian calendar.
However, the astronomer's calendar includes the intercalation of ten days
by Gregory XIII, so the astronomer's remainder is 26.087 days shorter than
the Gregorian remainder. This yields a 0 Baktun astronomer's date of September
6, 3114 BC. In the star charts in this essay, the astronomer's date is used
in all cases. Thus, the astronomer's date of September 6, 3114 BC and the
Gregorian date of August 11, 3114 BC are both 13 Baktun, or 1,872,000 days
before December 21, 2012. Now we are ready to let the Maya prepare their
own calendar, and see if they did it with fewer subjective anomalies than
our present calendar.

SYNCHRONIZATION OF THE MAYA LONG COUNT CALENDAR

According to Jenkins and other sources, the Maya began to use a Long Count
Calendar some time before 200 B.C. The Long Count Calendar conversion from
our "astronomer's" Julian calendar is provided in the table and graph below.

The Maya long count calendar is a scientifically accurate linear count based
upon cosmic measurement and logic. In order to develop the count, they had
to have substantial knowledge of the heavens, for the calendar is synchronized
to the heavens at each end. The long count calendar has a beginning at 0.0.0.0.0
on the Julian date, September 6, 3114 B.C., and it ends on 13.0.0.0.0 on
the Julian date, December 21, 2012. The calendar is a sacred calendar and
it covers the 1,872,000 days of the age of the 5th Sun, without the problem
of leap year intercalations. The most important feature is the end date.
The Julian calendar has a start date, but no end date. Jenkins concludes
from the fact of an end date, that the Maya calendar was derived from the
end date, rather than the start date. This is extremely important to the
whole idea of a calendar. It can be related to convicts serving prison time,
or military personal serving in the armed services. They tend to focus on
the end date of their incarceration or term of duty. A non-subjective calendar
only needs a single date from which positive and negative counts can be made.
So, Jenkins has hit upon the essence of the concept of an age of the sun.
It has a beginning which is determined by its end, as for convicts and military
personnel, the end date is most important.

There is one point regarding the long count calendar that needs special
attention. Jenkins, and most current Mayanologists, use the long count start
date, August 11, 3114 BC. This is twenty six days before September 6, 3114
BC. The variation is a result of the astronomer's calendar being different
than the archaeologist's calendar. Since the purpose of this essay is to
demonstrate the astronomical capabilities and the mythological correspondence
to the heavens, we will use the September 6, 3114 B.C. date. To a Mayanologist
who has limited understanding of the astronomy and the related subjectivity,
the August 11, 3114 BC date will suffice. But, if we are to track the stars
to see the story in the heavens, the date is of less importance than the
number of days. That is what the Maya long count represents. It is a precise
standard which will reveal information which otherwise could never be found.
It is the number of days that is important. The standard unit is one day.
Using the rotation of the earth and the zenith meridian crossing cycle as
a reference, all celestial phenomena can be calibrated. Modern Western
Civilization got caught in the sun cult of Sol Invictus during the Roman
Empire period, and it has inherited significant inaccuracies and lost metaphors
in its calendars as a result. The Maya did not get tangled up in the debate
of the seasons, because the long count is not a sun cult measurement. The
Maya Long Count is a direct measurement between the earth daily cycles, and
the precessional cycles of the cosmos. It defines the cycles of the heavens
using an easily observed phenomena, the zenith passing of a celestial object.

The symbolic Maya message of the age of the 5th Sun is the return of First
Father, One Hunahpu, after the successful defeat of the Lords of Xibalba
by his son, Hunahpu, in the cosmic ball court. According to the myth, the
return of First Father will be out of the mouth of First Mother, as Hunahpu
becomes the 5th Sun. If you listen carefully, you can hear an echo of the
cosmic message which the Egyptians recorded in the myth of the conforming
son Horus returning to restore the kingdom of his father, Osiris. From this
we can hypothesize that the first four suns of the Maya must have been analogous
to Osiris and his siblings along the Nile. The four active siblings of the
past in Egypt were archetypal messengers for the metaphysical elements fire,
air, water, and earth. The first four suns of the Maya must have a similar
connection, since these four elements are the whole of our cosmic creation,
and are present in the Maya myths. Hunahpu becoming the 5th Sun is a clear
statement that enlightenment is the goal.

In Egypt, the child of the dead father was Horus, the posthumous son of Osiris
to the miracle working wife, Isis. This child has to be a divine child due
to his posthumous conception. Its name, Horus, was the same as the inactive
uncle Horus the Elder, and even more important it was the same as the originator
of all Egypt, Ra-Hor-Khuti, or the Horus of two horizons. This means that
Horus, the son of Isis, was born to restore the kingdom of the First Father
of Egypt. This Egyptian Horus son is the Mayan Hunahpu. And more importantly,
the two First Father spirits are the same by the names Ra and One Hunahpu.
The age of the 5th Sun in the Americas is the age of Horus in Egypt. There
is much in the historical record which shows that the tribal kings of Egypt
and the native Americans were called Son of the Sun. Thus, the living tribal
kings were emulating the gods as god kings through enlightenment, i.e., learning
the cosmic truths.

Anthropologists often associate these cultures with the label "sun worshipers."
If we examine the mystique of the sun closely, we realize that it is the
source of all life in the solar system, and for all we have yet experienced,
life anywhere else. So, to be a "sun worshiper" means to be one who worships
life. The sun is our source of light. Therefore, a king who successfully
emulates the sun will become a source of light in the lives of those who
follow him. Great priest-kings of the tribal communities of Egypt and the
Americas strived to be beneficent enlightened providers of life to the tribes
they served. This high communal responsibility idea is at the very core of
the age known as the 5th Sun. The prior four ages resulted in humans identifying
with the fundamental elements of the material, physical, mental, and spiritual
cosmos. The fifth age has to be the age when the son of the sun returns to
fulfill the purpose first established at the moment of conception by First
Father within First Mother. These seven entities represent the complete cosmos
of the ancient world of Egypt and the Americas, as well as every other location
and time in the cosmos; earth/material, water/physical, air/mental, fire/esprit,
son/conscious, mother/medium, father/message.

SYNCHRONIZING THE OBJECT AND THE SUBJECT

Now lets consider the meaning of the age of the 5th Sun as represented by
the Maya, and in particular, as presented by John Major Jenkins in Maya
Cosmogenesis 2012. It should be understood that the material sciences of
Asia, Africa, and the Americas do not vary due to location on the earth.
If the ancient cultures of the world were using the scientific method in
the most sacred places of their cultures, then it should not be a surprise
that discoveries made at locations widely separated around the planet come
to similar conclusions. The objective conclusions are not dependent upon
the seeker, they are totally dependent upon what is being sought. If the
search is for cosmic awareness, then the metaphors which identify received
awareness must be very similar in their expression, because all people around
the world have the planet and their humanity in common. But, even more important
in our cosmic pursuit, we all share the same stars throughout the ages. The
angular location of the stars will vary with place and time on earth, and
we should expect the myths to vary depending upon these variations of the
visible stars. In the greater picture of the cosmos, the differences must
fade, because we all share the cosmos from the perspective of the barque
of the sun, the ecliptic solar system. Finding out where that barque is going,
was the goal of every priest king who ever had a need to rule.

When the path of the solar barque is found, either it will demonstrate
intelligent design, or it will demonstrate chaos. If it demonstrates the
latter, then the search is futile, and even material science cannot prevail.
If it demonstrates the former, the search is inevitably tied to the original
intent. That is why, the world will change dramatically when the age of the
5th Sun passes successfully. Then, humanity will necessarily be counted amongst
the gods who have recognized the inevitability of intentional design in creation.
Thus, the end of the age of the 5th Sun was understood by the Maya to be
the time of the release of the soul from the prison of material existence
through cosmic enlightenment of the originating plan. The end date of all
religions is revealed when the moment for the spirit to go to heaven arises.
This occurred in the ritual of the transition back to the Milky Way through
the Way of the Dead, Xibalba be, the dark rift at the Sagittarius
ecliptic/galactic conjunction. Necessarily, this was also the location from
which spiritual life emerged in to the material world. This celestial location
synchronizes the cosmic object with the cosmic subject at the rebirth of
the original intent.

Jenkins has clearly expressed a sentiment of the Maya. He expects a major
new adventure to begin. However, there are some misperceptions in his works
that are not of his doing, even though he put the works together. The major
misperception is influenced by prior errant research by others, and scientific
paradigms failing to communicate. Let us look at his understanding of the
location in the heavens which foretell the coming age.

Diagram 184 presents the information that Jenkins would have us use to identify
the conjunction of the Milky Way and the ecliptic with the idea of conjuring
or creating a New World Order, a cosmogenesis. This is not representative
of what the ancients would have seen. It is a jumble of dots and lines. True,
the figure can be used to illustrate in graphic metaphor the leftward (eastward)
movement of planets and the sun along the horizontal line of the ecliptic,
under the projection of the earth's equator near the place where the ecliptic
plane intersects the plane of the galaxy at the farthest distance from the
equatorial plane. This is a winter solstice conjunction near the center of
the galaxy (GC). The diagram is very objective, and leaves little subjective
evidence for communicating with the ancient vision. This is the scientific
paradigm failing to communicate the cosmic subject. The "snapshot" of the
graphic metaphor does not say that cosmic time is "right running" due to
precession. That is the essential message which all great ancient monuments
carry. Precession is the true measure of cosmic time, and therefore, the
"Will of God."

In Diagram 90 we have a conjecture of three subjective interpretations of
the celestial vision. The question which needs to be clarified is, "Does
the limited perception in the star chart result from erroneous ancient
hallucinations, or modern narrow-mindedness." This is not an implication
against Jenkins, but an implication against the paradigms of the modern education
system. The lack of subjectivity in the star charts is an essential cause
for misinterpretation, and retention of ignorance and prejudice regarding
the ancient sky watchers. They did not see burning balls of gas, any more
than a math student sees chalk dust on a blackboard. The ancient sky watchers
saw spots of light first. Then the mind organized the spots into figures.
After separate figures were sufficiently established in the ancient sky watchers'
minds, they told stories about the sky apparitions. The Australian Aborigines
still call the heavens the "dream time" place. It is essential to listen
for the messages over a sufficient period of time to hear the cosmic story
line of precession.

Many of the stories found relevance in daily life; like the establishment
of calendars, for example, or scheduling rituals for celebrating life. I
myself was out watching the sky with my fiancé one evening when a
satellite crossed in front of our eyes. The movement was astonishing. But,
when we realized that it had passed between her birth sign and mine, the
satellite became more to us than just a moving spot before our eyes. It
communicated directly to us on terms we could relate to. This relationship
was subjective. Who but we could relate to it? On a later occasion my eight
year old daughter and I were watching clouds moving around in the night sky
blocking stars in peculiar forms. That week we had watched a video of the
Little Mermaid by Disney Studios. As the clouds moved, an ominous shape appeared
which looked remarkably like Ursula, the tyrannical octopus. Then to the
south there appeared a pointed cloud with a large slender protrusion jutting
out of it toward the Ursula cloud. These two clouds were being moved by the
wind in such manner that they approached each other. Then, simultaneously,
my daughter and I "saw" that Prince Eric was on the cloud approaching from
the south. When the broken bow sprit on Prince Eric's cloud ship contacted
the Ursula cloud, the Ursula cloud vanished. And shortly thereafter, Prince
Eric's cloud vanished also. But, the one thing that was retained is the memory
of a father and a daughter standing together outside viewing the heavens
and seeing the heavens communicate directly to them. The perception is a
" dream time" about real objects, real people, and real feelings. The heavens
spoke to us that night. Is there any doubt that the number of stories that
can be told about the heavens is beyond counting?

To avoid this problem, modern astronomers in most cases, and archaeologists
and anthropologists in many cases, decrease the enormous task of retrieving
past life information by the processes of redaction and deduction they believe
to be objectivity. When it comes to star stories, objectivity is a cosmic
holocaust. All star stories originate in the spots before the human face,
but many of them end up on the temples, monuments, and rock or cave art of
human cultures. Those images cannot be properly understood until the researcher
returns to the time and place which inspired the image. This is what Jenkins
did in preparing Maya Cosmogenesis 2012. He sought to retrieve the ancient
celestial image using deductive procedures applied with an intuitive perception.
In this regard he has been far more successful than any academic researcher,
and he has out paced most of the intuitive type authors, because he uses
star charts which have some subjective content.

Jenkins did not acknowledge in his studies that the planets move backward
in cosmic time. Rather, he declared that the longest measure of time was
the "backward" precession of the equinoxes. This is a residual perception
from the "Sol Invictus" paradigm of the Roman conquerors. Modern scientific
paradigms define time as an entity governing planetary motion, which to them
appears as "left running." The ancient paradigms did not identify time, they
identified place, and time was the path of the subjective view of cosmic
place. The gods moved, and their movements were recorded in the story. This
is the intuitive-sensitive process by which history becomes fact. But, history
is never fact. History is always a subjective view of the facts. Modern science
fabricated time as an entity in order to eliminate subjectivity in its paradigms.
We speak of time as if we could put it into a bottle, but the only instant
in time which can be said to exist has the magnitude of zero seconds. Thus,
the modern scientific paradigm has given substance value to something that
does not exist. As long as scientific paradigms deny subjectivity using the
existence of time as the basis for the denial, science cannot comprehend
subjective truths, and the scientific story will always be at odds with the
spirit of being.

The idea of left running can be visualized by pointing the thumb of the extended
right hand upward. The fingers point in the "left running" direction. The
precession moves "backward" relative to this motion. In the solar system
with the thumb of the right hand pointed toward the constellation Draco,
the rotation of the earth and the orbiting direction of the moon, and the
orbiting directions of the planets will go in the direction of the fingers.
The sun will appear to be moving in the same direction, even though the earth
is actually running around the sun. The "left running" perspective is reciprocal,
because the dancing partners have a common upward direction.

The visual perception is like a solar merri-go-round suggesting that the
stars and the seasonal markers move to the right. In order to appreciate
the movement of the celestial gods in the ancient mind, it is necessary to
sense the direction that the "dream time spirits" move relative to the observer.
The "spirits" are the daily sky, the annual sky, and the precessional cross
at the seasonal markers of the equinoxes and the solstices. These all are
perceived as right running. The wobble of the polar axis is opposite the
daily rotation and the planetary actions. However, since the eye cannot follow
the precessional cross visually, these four markers are referenced to the
background stars. It is this perception that reverses the precession and
makes all three of the heavenly cycles in our solar boat go to the right
in the ancient view of the stars. Since they did not see time as an entity,
the right running perception worked best for the story line. It communicated
the verifiable facts. Daily zenith stars, seasonal zenith stars, and precessional
seasonal markers all move to the right as perceived from the earth.

If Orion is on the meridian at midnight on the winter solstice, it is on
the right at the west horizon at dawn. At midnight on the spring equinox,
Orion has moved to the right at the west horizon. The summer solstice position
which is above Orion at midnight on the winter solstice was in Gemini for
2000 thousand years, and is now moving into Taurus, as it moves from left
to right. From this perspective, all the true spirits of the story line in
the heavens are moving toward the right, and are right running. Astronomy
chooses the planetary direction of left running for several numerical reasons.
First, and foremost, the sun is the center of the modern paradigm for heavenly
movement, and it is considered stationary from the perspective of solar system
dynamics. Equations which use positive time parameters are easier to understand
than ones which use negative time parameters. Few students question whether
time should be positive or negative. If negative time parameters were used,
they would undoubtedly wonder why time was negative. But, they would accept
that an entity called time could be positive from the past to the future.

What is lost in this discourse is that the true stationary timeless being
is the whole cosmos. That was the reference for the ancient story lines.
Thus, there was no time when a person would be dead. A person would simply
return to the cosmos when the work of living was finished. The idea of living
in heaven or hell for eternity requires time to be an entity. Without time
as an entity, a person can move back and forth between heaven and earth by
the way of the dead, which is the eternal story line of the heavens.

If we associate the precessional movement as the divine reality, then the
direction of the travel is the direction the Leo asterism walks. Similarly,
if we associate planetary movement in the solar system as the material reality,
then the direction of travel is the direction the Aquarius asterism walks.
It will be easy to remember if you associate Leo with the kingdom of heaven,
and Aquarius with the life giving waters on earth.

Measurable cosmic time is "right running," and this longest measure of time
is in opposition to planetary motion. Once the "left running" paradigm is
switched to"right running," material science will switch to "sacred science."
The "metaphors" in the sky move from left to right every daily cycle, every
annual cycle, and every Platonic cycle. In the heavens, time is measured
by "right running" of the gods. This point was written in Egyptian sculpture
and art by showing the gods leading by their left foot. Since the Egyptian
gods were asterisms of the heavens which always move to our right, their
lead is with the left foot from our perspective. The planets were contrary
gods who appear to be moving left, if this cosmic motion is ignored. The
frame of reference is absolutely critical in interpreting any action in the
heavens, or else an interpretation of any "snapshot" will be misleading with
regard to any story line, which is the measure called time.

Astronomers designate the vernal equinox as the 1st of Aries, and adjust
its position in epochs every 50 years. The epochs are "corrections" for the
slow "backward" movement of the precession. This is a mathematical construct
which allows the equations for planetary motions to be defined in terms of
positive units of time. The construct becomes apparent when we search for
star positions in past millennia. For example, the present right ascension
position of the vernal equinox is zero hours, zero minutes zero seconds (00h
00m 00.0s) in Pisces. The vernal equinox location in Taurus in 3114 BC was
at 04h 35m 35s right ascension from the present vernal equinox. This is a
"forward" time value which is 04h 35m 35s "left" of the present vernal equinox
position for a past epoch in terms of "right" ascension. It is an example
of how objectivity in numerical computations confuse the subjective expression
of a computation. This lack of precision in the use of subjective expression
is amplified by calling the vernal equinox the 1st of Aries, when it is located
02h00m west of the constellation of Aries. This tendency to ignore subjective
clarity for the sake of numerical simplicity and objectivity has caused many
scientific practitioners to become "absent minded professors," when they
apply science to real life situations. Common sense gets lost in the transition
between scientific "common knowledge" and communication about the subjects
of scientific studies. Society then elevates the "absent minded professors"
to ivory towers where they make sounds like owls, but the average person
does not give a hoot what they say. In this isolation, scientists abandon
the conforming rituals of religious practice, and they rationalize the religious
perspective as unscientific. On this basis, ancient sacred sciences are perceived
as unscientific, and this erroneous perspective implies that the sacred sciences
are untruth. That is the end result which causes theological perspectives
and scientific perspectives to diverge. The two perspectives cannot communicate,
because "how?" overpowers "why?" as objective methods fail to communicate
subjective messages. These words are intended to illustrate the battle between
common sense and experiential knowledge. We will see later that this battle
is the essential battle with the Lord of Xibalba called Seven Macaw. Does
Seven Macaw point the way of "Right Running" while tricking truth seekers
into using "Left Running" paradigms?

Subjective content of the constellations was the source of the metaphysically
based science of astrology. Today's science of tropical astrology is dominated
by the "left running" planets. And that is a major source of astrological
misinterpretations. It is Sol Invictus defeating the subjective spirits of
the other stars. Since the telescope was invented by Galileo, we began to
apply severe reductionist procedures to the heavens. Through the telescope
we can see that there are no demons or gods in the heavens. This is equivalent
to taking a powerful magnifying glass to a chalkboard and telling the class
instructor that there is nothing on the chalkboard except dust. Any astronomy
book will lead to names of constellations, but practically all of them say
there never were any connections which resembled the names of the constellations.
This incredibly baffling approach to scientific understanding must stand
as the greatest fallacy of the modern world. To imply that the constellation
names are the result of hallucinations is about as arrogant and insensitive
an approach to understanding that can ever be imagined.

Science is not science when it begins with such incredible bias hidden within
its hypotheses. That form of science is the tyranny the Maya attributed to
the Lord of Xibalba, known as Seven Macaw at the "thieve's cross." Human
birds resting on the perches of our ivory tower academic institutions lead
to the loss of cosmic understanding in the modern world. Since they teach
their methods to our children, the whole civilization suffers when it operates
with these academic fetters. After hundreds of years, and many generations,
the greater messages are lost to expedient objectivity. Yet, these very people
are held up in highest intellectual esteem. The ivory towers provide them
a place to flap their wings like in the aviary of a bird park. Our children
need these places of growth, but when the altitude of the academics becomes
too high to see the source of the stars, they teach a rational bias which
must be confronted, without destroying their perches.